BAS & THE HICS ANNOUNCE LONG-ANTICIPATED COLLABORATIVE ALBUM MELANCHRONICA ARRIVES JUNE 17, 2025
Fresh off their standout performance at the final Dreamville Festival, multiple GRAMMY Award-nominated Dreamville hip-hop artist Bas and London-based musical duo The Hics have announced that their long-anticipated collaborative album, Melanchronica, is set to arrive on June 17, 2025 and available now to PRE-SAVE HERE. The longtime collaborators have also shared the lead single off the project, “Everyday Ppl,” out now on all digital streaming platforms via Dreamville/FIENDS.
Now fully independent, Bas enters his most visionary chapter yet with Melanchronica, a collaborative album with The Hics that has been quietly in the works for eight years. Crafted in studios across five cities and produced with obsessive care, Melanchronica is a layered and emotionally resonant project that captures the creative synergy between Bas and The Hics at its most evolved. Melanchronica is the soundtrack for those who feel they are a part of the downtrodden modern human condition of the overworked – a discontented person who’s longing for deeper connection.
Sharing more about the upcoming collaborative album, Bas shares, “The longing of a lost love, the battle between our own duality, and the pensive self reflection of one’s own shortcomings are a few of the themes present on ‘Melanchronica.’ It also speaks on the battles we face against our ambitions, the responsibilities we carry for others, and oftentimes our failures in those moments.”
Lead vocalist of The Hics Roxane Barker says, “I feel this album is about longing and desire. A desire for more, a longing to have everything you want when you want it. It highlights the kind of existentialism we all feel sometimes whether it’s career, love or happiness.”
The Hics’ Sam Paul Evans also adds, “This project encompasses the stories of our lives, from pre to post pandemic. I think we now yearn for the connection we once shared, unable to recall what intimacy truly feels like or how to be vulnerable with one another. Society demands more but gives less. I like to see these songs as diary entries, little reminders of what once felt close to me.”
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